When Yves Laulan says, “We would be returning to the Dark Ages,” the chief economist of the largest bank in France is talking about the economy after a nuclear war. With half the Northern Hemisphere's urban population wiped out by the war's direct blasts alone, those remaining would find themselves in a barter economy trading in nothing more than the basic elements of survival: food, shelter and medical care.

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